By listening to the differerent oral stories, I learned how people lived, and what seemed to be normal in their life during the great depression. I found it amazing that women didn't have equal rights, and were not valued as supporters of familys', when the help was vital. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Miller is a good example of this. She sliced up a five hundred and fifty pound hog and carried it to the cellar by herself. When her husband got home he was amazed that a woman could do that work. Another thing I learned is that Work was strickd and hard. Irving Fajans, a department store employee for Macy's, said that if you handed out anything about the union in work, you were fired. This ment they haad to work under the table and hand out pamphlets secretly. This shows me that during the depression, people were cold, closed minded and unfair to workers. Another example of difficult work would be being an Iron worker like Chris Thorsten. He said that "You aint an iron worker unless you get killed." Almost everyone in this trade got hurt by accidents on the work sight. But never thet less, people looked for the positive side of things and had a bright spirit.
Louis Mark There was a lot of significant information that I learned from the interviews. One big thing I learned was that every one not just colored people had tough times as well and I don’t think people realized that everyone had problems. Example in this video (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html) The woman was a maid and she was white and the people she where working for did not trust her so they tested her by leaving a five dollars on the floor to see if she would take it or not. I don’t blame her boss but that just goes to show you how paranoid people where of just anyone not one person in peculiar. Also during this time work was had to find and if you did it was hard work things that could kill you like Chris Thorsten in this interview (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html) this man was almost killed while working with iron. Another thing that was going around work where unions they where forbiddenpeople would be fired of they where caught trying to promote these meeting says Irving Fajanswho worked at Macys. (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/irving.html). All of these symbolize how during this time people had to strive to say alive and that not everyone had it easy in life.
Caitlin Pierce
In listening to the interviews, I realized how greatly people were affected by segregation and the Great Depression. I also discovered that most people were struggling. Rights were also not equal for African Americans. One very good example of this is Jim Cole. He was not put into the workers union because of his race. Even though he had been working packing house for twenty years, he still could not get into the union. Another thing that I learned was that many people were forced to have jobs they did not like because they desperately needed the money. For instance, Bernice had to become a rent party hostess when her husband had left her and she had to pay sixty dollars a month to rent an apartment. Bernice had thought that the job was disgraceful, but she had to do it in order to keep her apartment. Finally, I learned that even thought times were hard and rough, people still pushed past them and hoped that it would just get better.
By listening to the differerent oral stories, I learned how people lived, and what seemed to be normal in their life during the great depression. I found it amazing that women didn't have equal rights, and were not valued as supporters of familys', when the help was vital. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Miller is a good example of this. She sliced up a five hundred and fifty pound hog and carried it to the cellar by herself. When her husband got home he was amazed that a woman could do that work. Another thing I learned is that Work was strickd and hard. Irving Fajans, a department store employee for Macy's, said that if you handed out anything about the union in work, you were fired. This ment they haad to work under the table and hand out pamphlets secretly. This shows me that during the depression, people were cold, closed minded and unfair to workers. Another example of difficult work would be being an Iron worker like Chris Thorsten. He said that "You aint an iron worker unless you get killed." Almost everyone in this trade got hurt by accidents on the work sight. But never thet less, people looked for the positive side of things and had a bright spirit.
Louis Mark
There was a lot of significant information that I learned from the interviews.
One big thing I learned was that every one not just colored people had tough
times as well and I don’t think people realized that everyone had problems.
Example in this video (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/marie.html)
The woman was a maid and she was white and the people she where working for did not trust her so they tested her by leaving a five dollars on the floor to see if she would take it or not. I don’t blame her boss but that just goes to show you how paranoid people where of just anyone not one person in peculiar. Also during this time work was had to find and if you did it was hard work things that could kill you like Chris Thorsten in this interview
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/thorsten.html) this man was almost killed while working with iron. Another thing that was going around work where unions they where forbidden people would be fired of they where caught trying to promote these meeting says Irving Fajans who worked at Macys. (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/irving.html). All of these symbolize how during this time people had to strive to say alive and that not everyone had it easy in life.
Caitlin Pierce
In listening to the interviews, I realized how greatly people were affected by segregation and the Great Depression. I also discovered that most people were struggling. Rights were also not equal for African Americans. One very good example of this is Jim Cole. He was not put into the workers union because of his race. Even though he had been working packing house for twenty years, he still could not get into the union. Another thing that I learned was that many people were forced to have jobs they did not like because they desperately needed the money. For instance, Bernice had to become a rent party hostess when her husband had left her and she had to pay sixty dollars a month to rent an apartment. Bernice had thought that the job was disgraceful, but she had to do it in order to keep her apartment. Finally, I learned that even thought times were hard and rough, people still pushed past them and hoped that it would just get better.